The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

Tag: Lauren Wright Douglas

  • Marsha Mildon’s Cal Meredith Books

    A puzzle: during the 1990s, two terrific authors of lesbian private investigator series emerged from the bucolic but small city of Victoria, British Columbia. Both had American publishers, and I’ve described previously how Lauren Wright Douglas was part of the sprawling genre fiction output of Naiad Press, based in Florida. Marsha Mildon‘s two books in…

  • Lauren Wright Douglas’s The Rage of Maidens

    My fall research task was drafting a chapter on lesbian private investigators in Canadian crime fiction. I’m only about halfway there, but it’s been a lot of fun. I discussed Eve Zaremba‘s fiction recently, and I’m reading Liz Bugg, Jackie Manthorne, and Marsha Mildon. Naiad Press was a lesbian publishing house headed by the formidable…

  • Eve Zaremba and the Canadian Lesbian Detective Novel

    Toronto writer Eve Zaremba passed away last month. She was a major figure in Canadian writing and social justice. Her fictional sleuth Helen Keremos, who made her debut in 1978 in A Reason to Kill, is generally acknowledged to be the first lesbian private eye. (An American book I haven’t yet read, M.F. Beal’s Angel…